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arXiv:2603.09214 (cs)
[Submitted on 10 Mar 2026]
Title:PrivPRISM: Automatically Detecting Discrepancies Between Google Play Data Safety Declarations and Developer Privacy Policies
Authors:Bhanuka Silva, Dishanika Denipitiyage, Anirban Mahanti, Aruna Seneviratne, Suranga Seneviratne
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Abstract:End-users seldom read verbose privacy policies, leading app stores like Google Play to mandate simplified data safety declarations as a user-friendly alternative. However, these self-declared disclosures often contradict the full privacy policies, deceiving users about actual data practices and violating regulatory requirements for consistency. To address this, we introduce PrivPRISM, a robust framework that combines encoder and decoder language models to systematically extract and compare fine-grained data practices from privacy policies and to compare against data safety declarations, enabling scalable detection of non-compliance. Evaluating 7,770 popular mobile games uncovers discrepancies in nearly 53% of cases, rising to 61% among 1,711 widely used generic apps. Additionally, static code analysis reveals possible under-disclosures, with privacy policies disclosing just 66.8% of potential accesses to sensitive data like location and financial information, versus only 36.4% in data safety declarations of mobile games. Our findings expose systemic issues, including widespread reuse of generic privacy policies, vague / contradictory statements, and hidden risks in high-profile apps with 100M+ downloads, underscoring the urgent need for automated enforcement to protect platform integrity and for end-users to be vigilant about sensitive data they disclose via popular apps.
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| Subjects: | Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2603.09214 [cs.AI] |
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| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.09214
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From: Bhanuka Pinchahewage Malith Silva [view email][v1] Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:33:40 UTC (2,718 KB)
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